LOL, I love the condescending tone after you didn't read my posts and make misleading as hell statements. Glad to see you admit you had not points.
Okay, as apparently you really want this; let's deal with your 'points' one by one.
LOL, so what you meant to say is 40 shitty indie game ports that you could play for years before now? Ya, what a HUGE launch!
But that's not the system launch is it?
Those are titles that are definitely guaranteed to be available at launch, because they are available
right now .
what are other probable launch titles?
Anything available on OSX would seem logical to be present; as would anything sold via HIB, as of course they are already available on Linux and available through the Steam store.
Also your definition of 'shitty' indie titles is almost embarrassing.
Valve is making it and the only game they made that they could be bothered to port is TF2, why isn't their whole collection on it?
Except for the fact that Left 4 Dead 2 has already been ported to Linux and was their test case for optimisations, as shown in previous blogs about their Linux experiments.
Given all of Valves games are made in the source engine, that pretty much guarantees Valves entire library will be available at launch.
The 'real' version of TF2 will of course be a Steam exclusive, as current consoles simply can't handle it in it's present multi-patched form.
The same I am sure will go for DOTA2 when that finally moves out of Beta.
Again, when they even get a single major release then I'll be more impressed than the absolutely nothing they have now.
Well, it would seem like it is nonsensical to be raging about lack of support before the hardware is even officially announced, wouldn't it?
The fact that we have the information we already do regarding software support for launch is far, far, far more than any other platform release I can think of ever.
Some of those games were already released as a linux version on those indie dev's website, steam didn't create linux in case you didn't know.
Well thanks for the insight into Linus Torvalds not being a Valve employee.
Games being available for Linux is a good thing for the Steambox, as it offers a native catalogue from the get go; I'm not sure why you seem to think the opposite.
That's like saying if this was using windows that "What other system has THOUSANDS OF GAMES as launch titles??????", you couldn't be more misleading.
You're the one demanding information that doesn't exist, but yes, if MS released a dedicated gaming platform based on an x86 architecture and a Windows kernel, you'd better believe that all of their marketing would make substantial gains on the wide library already natively available for it.
Things that are true aren't misleading. Princessbride.gif